Drifting Luke's Highway - Original song

[flatbaroque]

Hi folks.New song I wrote.Bit bleak but I hope some like it.On J-45.
Cheers.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDNurFE9O6M

Once was a little kid
a toy six shooter
then a working stiff
soon a high falooter

horizons were fingered
big wheels got scammed
and lesser gods carved me
as their drinking man

tell ya what the drinking man saw
Angelina walk out the door
a mantelpiece without any cards
and Christmas night in the cold fact bar

on Drifting Luke's highway
a downbeat of cars
us new broken hearted
unhitched from our stars

past sheet metal fairgrounds
five minutes from rust
and high wire girls
on rope they don't trust

that's a tough law you made
the half life when love fades
I drink at the morning I drink at the sky
the rear vision mirror never asks why

lost weekends in the valley
lost friends in the stream
Old Dali does my nightmares
Young Munch does the screams

no longer a little one
But I still bullet-hole signs
My Cadillac's waiting
just biding it's time

tell ya where the drinking man ends
on Drifting Luke's highway around every bend
shaking and laying in his next shotgun shack
one thing certain no-one's calling him back

[Glennwillow]

Nice job FB! A song about a drinking man probably should be rather bleak, a cautionary tale for sure! Thanks for listing the words here!

- Glenn

[SalFromChatham]

I like it brother.

Lyrics are top notch.

[flatbaroque]

Thanks Glenn and Sal.Appreciate your kind words.

Terrific​ FB! Quite the bummer though.

[KevWind]

Very interesting use of imagery
Not to bleak IMO, it is part of life and makes me glad I quit drinkin some 30 years ago.

It would lend itself nicely to some driving bass and soaring lead riffs..... very cool

[flatbaroque]

Doug and Kev.Good on ya fellers . Thanks for taking the time to listen and have a gander at the lyrics.